Harriet Bulkeley, Accomplishing Climate Governance – now out with Cambridge UP

Harriet Bulkeley, Accomplishing Climate Governance – now out with Cambridge University Press.

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This book provides a new approach to thinking about the politics and geographies of climate governance. It argues that in order to understand the nature and potential of the range of new responses to climate change emerging at multiple scales we need to examine how governance is accomplished – how it is undertaken, practiced and contested. Through a range of case studies drawn from communities, corporations and local government, the book examines how climate change comes to be governed and made to matter as an issue with which diverse publics should be concerned. It concludes that rather than seeking the solution to climate change once and for all, we need to engage with the ways in which we can channel our intentions to ameliorate the climate problem to more progressive ends. The book will be of interest to researchers, advanced students and policy makers across the social sciences.

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Bruno Latour, Face à Gaia – French publication of Gifford lectures to precede English version

Bruno Latour, Face à Gaia – French publication of Gifford lectures to precede English version. All the news at his site.

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How to give a conference paper – some excellent advice to read and share

How_to_Give_a_Conference_PaperHow to give a conference paper – some excellent advice to read and share from Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn.

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The Scramble for the Poles: Klaus Dodds publishes his new book

News of Klaus Dodds and Mark Nuttall’s new book The Scramble for the Poles.

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The Human Condition in the Anthropocene: Dipesh Chakrabarty’s Tanner Lectures

Video of Dipesh Chakrabarty’s Tanner Lectures

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Two lectures, plus a round table:

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Quarante ans de Surveiller et punir. Colloque international (2015)

Details of a forthcoming event in Paris on Surveiller et punir.

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Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Colloque international

Quarante ans de Surveiller et punir

Institut des sciences juridique et philosophique de la Sorbonne (UMR 8103 CNRS Paris 1)
Centre de philosophie contemporaine de la Sorbonne (PhiCo)

19-21 novembre 2015

Paru en 1975, l’ouvrage de Michel Foucault Surveiller et punir. Naissance de la prison a fait date : non seulement il a connu un énorme succès lors de sa publication, mais il est aujourd’hui le livre le plus cité dans le domaine des sciences humaines et sociales. Cependant, dans ce colloque, quarante ans après, il ne s’agira pas tant de le célébrer que de s’interroger, avec la lucidité que permet le recul, sur ses enjeux, sa fortune et sur la valeur qu’il peut encore revêtir pour nous aujourd’hui.

Avant tout, il faudra revenir sur le contexte historique et politique concret dans lequel cet ouvrage a émergé, en faisant scandale et en suscitant…

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David Harvey, The Ways of the World – new collection forthcoming in February 2016

9780190469443David Harvey, The Ways of the World – new collection forthcoming in February 2016 [not 2015, sorry].

David Harvey is one of most famous Marxist intellectuals in the past half century, as well as one of the world’s most cited social scientists. Beginning in the early 1970s with his trenchant and still-relevant book Social Justice and the City and through this day, Harvey has written numerous books and dozens of influential essays and articles on topics across issues in politics, culture, economics, and social justice.

In The Ways of the World, Harvey has gathered his most important essays from the past four decades. They form a career-spanning collection that tracks not only the development of Harvey over time as an intellectual, but also a dialectical vision that gradually expanded its reach from the slums of Baltimore to global environmental degradation to the American imperium. While Harvey’s coverage is wide-ranging, all of the pieces tackle the core concerns that have always animated his work: capitalism past and present, social change, freedom, class, imperialism, the city, nature, social justice, postmodernity, globalization, and-not least-the crises that inhere in capitalism.

A career-defining volume, The Ways of the World will stand as a comprehensive work that presents the trajectory of Harvey’s lifelong project in full.

Thanks to dmfant for the link.

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The Palgrave Foucault collection: Special discount for Foucault News readers (2015)

Palgrave offer Foucault News readers a discount on their Foucault texts, including the Collège de France translations.

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Editor: Palgrave Macmillan have kindly offered a 30% discount to readers of Foucault News on books in their Foucault collection

Works included in this collection are The Punitive Society and Michel Foucault: A Research Companion The full price on the latter work has been reduced since I last posted on this. I will repost again shortly with full details.

“Save 30% on all titles in the Palgrave Foucault Collection. Just enter discount code PM15THIRTY at checkout when ordering on palgrave.com. Offer valid until December 31, 2015. Terms and conditions apply.”

This offer is not available to Australasia and Canada.

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Deleuze: Lettres et autres textes

Third volume of Deleuze’s posthumous texts, forthcoming in November.

Lettres et autres textes est le troisième et dernier volume des textes posthumes de Gilles Deleuze, publié à l’occasion du vingtième anniversaire de sa disparition. Il regroupe de nombreuses lettres adressées à ses contemporains (Michel Foucault, Pierre Klossowski, François Châtelet ou Clément Rosset). Particulièrement importantes à cet égard sont les lettres adressées à Félix Guattari, qui constituent un témoignage irremplaçable sur leur « travail à deux », de L’Anti-Œdipe jusqu’à Qu’est-ce que la philosophie ? On y trouve aussi des lettres plus tardives adressées à des étudiants qui l’interrogent sur son œuvre et lui permettent de l’éclairer d’un regard nouveau. Y figurent également un ensemble de textes introuvables ou inédits, comme certains essais de jeunesse, quelques dessins insolites, ou un long entretien de 1973 sur L’Anti-Œdipe avec Guattari.

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As I understand it, this edition — edited by David Lapoujade — will be available 11/5. From Minuit’s website (my translation into English):

Lettres et autres texts (Letters and other texts) is the third and final volume of Gilles Deleuze’s posthumous texts, published to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of his passing. It collects numerous letters addressed to his contemporaries (Michel Foucault, Pierre Klossowski, François Châtelet and Clément Rosset). Particularly important in this regard are the letters addressed to Félix Guattari, which constitute an irreplaceable testimony to their “working assemblage” [travail à deux], from Anti-Oedipus to What is Philosophy?  Also included are later letters addressed to students that questioned his body of work [œuvre] and which allow him to illuminate it with a fresh look. Also included is a collection of missing or unpublished texts, such as certain early essays, unusual drawings, and a long 1973 interview about Anti-Oedipus…

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